News Flash

There has been movement in Andie's right leg and arm ... possibly in the right hand as well. I caught up with her this morning as she was dong Occupational Therapy and the therapist said that Andie was fighting them as they were getting her out of bed this morning and in the hubub she thought she saw her fingers move. We're hanging out here in the patient dining area for this floor and just minutes ago she was kind of jiggling BOTH of her legs up and down. She still seems bored by all of this but you can tell that she likes people watching as we tried to position her near a big window to look outside she turned her self by pushing the wheelchair with her left foot to face the door to see the hallway. This lounge is great since I can have some internet access and she gets a change of scenery from being in her room. Watching OT is frustrating in a way cause I'm watching as she tries to fit shapes into the correct places and sometime she just looks away or focuses on other things around the room and I just want to say - just do it so you can be finished if you're so bored but I stay out of the way and keep my mouth shut. Her frustration level comes and goes you can tell that she's sometimes looking around in disbelief and it's hard to know if she understands what's going on or not. With aphasia - which is a possible diagnosis for her she can have regular intellegence and just not know how to communicate with us. Or she can think we're speaking gibberish and not know what we're saying at all... time will tell. We're going to Speech Therapy at noon then my parents and I will go to her place to get more clothes to alternate with the ones she's already worn here.